Article 16

1. The Member State responsible for examining an application for asylum under this Regulation shall be obliged to: take charge, under the conditions laid down in Articles 17 to 19, of an asylum seeker who has lodged an application in a different Member State; complete the examination of the application for asylum; take back, under the conditions laid down in Article 20, an applicant whose application is under examination and who is in the territory of another Member State without permission; take back, under the conditions laid down in Article 20, an applicant who has withdrawn the application under examination and made an application in another Member State; take back, under the conditions laid down in Article 20, a third-country national whose application it has rejected and who is in the territory of another Member State without permission. 2. Where a Member State issues a residence document to the applicant, the obligations specified in paragraph 1 shall be transferred to that Member State. 3. The obligations specified in paragraph 1 shall cease where the third-country national has left the territory of the Member States for at least three months, unless the third-country national is in possession of a valid residence document issued by the Member State responsible. 4. The obligations specified in paragraph 1(d) and (e) shall likewise cease once the Member State responsible for examining the application has adopted and actually implemented, following the withdrawal or rejection of the application, the provisions that are necessary before the third-country national can go to his country of origin or to another country to which he may lawfully travel.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-15 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.